Benjamin R. Epstein, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, announced that the ADL and The Business Roundtable, an organization made up of the chief executives of 170 major American corporations, conducted a joint meeting last week “for the purpose of exchanging views on efforts to reach a mutual accommodation with respect to Arab boycott issues.”
The meeting was chaired by Irving S. Shapiro, chairman of the board of the Du Pont Co., who is chairman of the Business Roundtable, and Burton M. Joseph, national chairman of the ADL and president of I.S. Joseph Company, Joseph and Shapiro stated that the group had a very constructive meeting and reached agreement on areas for fuller exploration and study.
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